Convention Going - Compare and Contrast

One of the reasons I had to leave the Marriott Hotel mid-week was that it was pre-sold and filled with attendees of another convention in the same convention center -

Some ginormous traveling international Quilting fest was in residence...

The attendees are remarkably similar- 

- primarily rounded, older women with bobbed hair and roller boards...

Spectrum Live attendees on the other hand -

Not nearly so many women, older or otherwise -

- and something about their look or demeanor gives them away as having interests outside of quilting....

(for more pictures, see my Flickr album here -)